CHC 1980 FINAL FULL TEXT PROPOSAL AMENDMENTS

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(d) No member of the commission shall be eligible to become a candidate for election to the council in the first election held under any reapportionment plan adopted by the commission. (e) The County Clerk, under the direction of the commission, shall furnish all necessary technical and secretarial services. The council shall appropriate funds to enable the commission to carry out its duties, including the hiring of necessary staff. (f) The commission shall act by majority vote of its membership and shall establish its own procedures, except as may be provided for in this charter. (g) The commission may apportion the [five] district council seats among the districts and redraw the district lines where and when necessary according to law, based upon,but not necessarily limited to, the most recent federal census. In effecting such redistricting, the commission shall also be guided by the following criteria: (1) .No district shall be so drawn as to unduly favor a person, political faction, or special interest group. (2) Districts, insofar as practicable, shall be contiguous and compact. (3) District lines shall, where possible, follow permanent and easily recognized features, and when practicable, shall coincide with census tract boundaries. (h) Not more than 120 days after the commission is constituted, the commission shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation, a proposed -reapportionment plan prepared by the commission. At least one public hearing shall be held in each council district within forty-five (45) days of initial publication. (i) Not later than the last day of September of the reapportion- ment year, the commission shall publish a final reapportionment plan in a newspaper of general circulation and shall file such plan with the County Clerk, at which time the plan shall become effective. Members of the commission shall hold office until the reapportionment plan becomes effective. (j) Any registered voter may petition the circuit court to compel, by mandamus or otherwise, the appropriate person or persons to perform their duty or to correct any error made in a reappor- tionment plan, or the court may take such other action to effectuate the purposes of this section as it may deem appropriate. Any such petition must be filed within thirty (30) days after the filing of a final reapportionment plan. Section 3-[3]4. Qualifications. A person must be a citizen of the United States of America and have been a duly qualified elector of the county for at least [two] one year[s] immediately preceding his election or appointment to the county council. Where residency in a district is a requirement, a person must have been a resident voter of the district from which he is to be elected or appointed for at least [two years] ninety (90) days immediately preceding [his] the primary election or his appointment. [Should a councilman who is elected to a seat requiring residency in a district cease to be a resident voter of said district during his term of office, his seat shall thereupon become vacant. Any councilman who ceases to be a resident voter of the County of Hawaii during his term of office shall be deemed to have vacated his seat.] Section 3-.[4]5. Compensation; Salary Commission. (a) The salary of councilmen shall be established by a salary commission which shall consist of nine members appointed by the [M]mayor without the approval of the [C]council, notwithstanding provision (b) in Section 1[3]2-4. The members may be removed by the mayor. (b) The commission shall consist of nine members, six of whom shall be representatives of the [C]county geographical areas of Puna, Ka'u, Kona, Kohala, Hamakua and Hilo, and three of whom shall he representative of the [C]county-at-large. In addition, the [Personnel]